Today Phil Askey can look back on 5 years of success, hard work and a continuous growth of his comprehensive website. DPReview has become one of the most important and respected websites of the world. We salute Phil and congratulate him with his remarkable achievement. Today its Christmas time, time to stand still with your family and friends and time to stand still with those who are not in the same position as we are. We are living in a strange world where digital imaging products almost control our daily life, where Megapixels, noise, flash memory have become a part of life. We wish all our readers and colleagues all over the world a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year! Cheers - LetsGoDigital.

This year has been a very interesting year for flash manufacturers. 1GB is no longer an exotic flash card, even 2, 4 and 6GB cards are close in sight. Some weeks ago Pretec announced the 6GB CompactFlash type II card, quite a prestige moment for them, but the price tag of this high capacity storage card is just too high! According to the original press release the Pretec 6GB CF type II card will cost around $7999. Compared to the 1GB Ultra II CompactFlash of SanDisk, which costs around $300, it is not that difficult to predict the price winner. But prices are not everything, so they say. The performance is also very important. Phil Askey was able to get his hands on the Pretec 6GB CompactFlash type II and the Lexar 40x 4GB type II card.